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KNOX – Remembering then-Princess Elizabeth’s ‘first major assignment’

September 11, 2022 // 0 Comments

PERHAPS YOU HAVE READ this story before. If so, please excuse both the repetition and the slight sentimentality of the tale. It’s just that having lost Queen Elizabeth [Continue]

KNOX – Summer is now unofficially over, and what a great one it was

September 5, 2022 // 0 Comments

IT GOT HOT AGAIN last week, one last hurrah. As it turned out, this summer was a lot like last year’s Canucks: slow to get going, but pretty good by the end of the season. [Continue]

KNOX – It’s not about how we’re policed, but how we’re governed

August 28, 2022 // 1 Comment

A COUPLE OF WEEKS ago, a reader wrote in with a puzzler. For decades her mailing address was written as Victoria, even though she lives in Esquimalt. Then one day, when [Continue]

KNOX – We live longer if we read, study says, but does quality matter?

August 14, 2022 // 0 Comments

News item: People who read more than 3½ hours a week lived 23 months longer than those who didn’t read at all, according to a study published in the journal Social Science [Continue]

KNOX – Test your knowledge with this B.C. Day quiz

July 31, 2022 // 0 Comments

RIGHT, THE B.C. DAY long weekend, a time when the people of this province traditionally celebrate who they are by racing to the outlet stores at Bellingham. How well do you [Continue]

KNOX – The big job search – Are you working to live, or living to work?

July 17, 2022 // 1 Comment

I TOOK A TUMBLE recently, the weight of my great big giant head having momentarily thrown me off balance. It meant I got to ride in an ambulance, though, which was cool, even [Continue]

KNOX – A Welcome-to-Canada primer for our returning American friends

July 3, 2022 // 0 Comments

DEAR AMERICAN visitors/touristes américains, On behalf of the government/gouvernement of Canada, I would like to welcome/bienvenue you back to Victoria as you celebrate your [Continue]

KNOX – With Hans Island out of the way, let’s refight the Pig War

June 19, 2022 // 1 Comment

News item: Canada and Denmark have announced a resolution to a 50-year-old dispute over who owns Hans Island, a tiny, barren, unpopulated rock in the narrow channel [Continue]

KNOX – Welcome back to the slumber game – let’s play ball

June 12, 2022 // 0 Comments

“You should enter a ballpark the way you enter a church.” — Bill (Spaceman) Lee, best-selling author and 14-year Montreal Expos and Boston Red Sox pitcher ALAS, BILL [Continue]

KNOX – Republicans be damned, the Queen rules

June 5, 2022 // 1 Comment

THEY’RE WHOOPING IT UP for the Queen in Britain, celebrating her 70 years on the throne. Here in Victoria, it’s a bit more subdued: The Platinum Jubilee will be [Continue]

KNOX – Legion trying to find medal-winners’ families, but it’s a tricky task

May 15, 2022 // 0 Comments

DID YOUR PARENTS or grandparents or great-whatevers serve in the military? Did they belong to the Royal Canadian Legion in Victoria? Do you know where their medals are? The [Continue]

KNOX – He had five large pizzas delivered from a pizzeria in Windsor

May 8, 2022 // 0 Comments

JOHN PALMER left his hometown of Windsor, Ont., to join the navy in 1977. Trudeau 1.0 was prime minister. Gretzky was playing junior B in Toronto. You could still fly CP Air, [Continue]

KNOX – The problem with four-year terms for mayors and councillors

May 1, 2022 // 3 Comments

LILLIAN SZPAK HAS ANNOUNCED she is pulling the plug, won’t run for re-election to Langford council in October. Actually, the decision merely confirms one she made on [Continue]

KNOX – Guy ‘ The Flower’ Lafleur hit the sweet spot of shared experience

April 24, 2022 // 0 Comments

I ONCE BOUGHT a Montreal Canadiens sweater with the number 15 on it, because even in my driveway dreams I wasn’t good enough to wear Guy Lafleur’s number 10. Nobody [Continue]